Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] back [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you shine a torch at something you what you are seeing is light being reflected back on to things into your eyes . |
| 2 | YOU FAT BASTAD ! ’ as a stage diver is thrown back on to the stage and Carl , who has removed his glasses in a rare moment of vanity , gets out of the way by blundering blindly into the snare drum . |
| 3 | The net result was that much of the energy from the Sun was reflected back out into space , so that the surface of the Earth became much cooler than it had been before . |
| 4 | as I say Pam and her husband are going back down to villa erm in June I mean Val wants me and Rudy to go down to the villa , they 're going from July to the end of September this , this year , probably for longer , but erm |
| 5 | The glasses and the bottle of wine were slammed back down on the bedside table and then his hand around her wrist was a shock . |
| 6 | Even though your aim is to get back up with the pace , using the matches as learning experience , it 's still a very daunting programme . |
| 7 | The roof drainage should be able to take water away quickly and cleanly without obstruction , and therefore eaves tiles should discharge neatly into gutters without water being blown back on to the wall or woodwork . |
| 8 | Erm , what , the nice shot is to get back up to , there and get over to the yellow . |
| 9 | The hand was sewn back on in an 11½-hour operation at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood , north London . |
| 10 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 11 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |